Farmers urged to grow every acre in 1915 wartime demand
Advertising rates apply. farmers urged by USDA and state boards to maximize arable land in 1915. Article notes Europe’s war sustains demand for exports and high prices, urging corn, grain, grasses, vegetables, and doubled potato acreage. Encourages poultry, hogs, cattle, and horses to meet home and war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers of
America
Europe
1915
The Jitney Invasion Tests Car Owners as Transit Magnets
The jitney boom shows car owners earning six to ten dollars daily by carrying passengers at five cents. In many cities jitneys block streetcar profits by operating on regular routes and schedules, turning private autos into profitable transport services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Prepare Tools Now for Spring Farm Work
The piece urges farmers to inspect tools and machinery, sharpen blades, remove rust, and replace worn parts to avoid delays. It contrasts efficient maintenance with the claim that even a large graveyard could bury all people if space were 500 square miles per person and notes wage comparisons between engineers and governors to question the wage system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Not Living In Vain If Jealousy Proves Worth
A reflection notes that a woman tests her life by whether she can spark jealousy in another woman. It emphasizes purpose and social comparison as measures of meaningful living.
U S Employment Bureau Opens for Job Seekers in 1913
The U S Department of Labor has completed preliminary work for a federal employment bureau. Application blanks will be sent to unemployed through post offices to gather job wants and transport needs. Secretary Wilson says the bureau will cooperate with trades unions to aid wage earners and mediate trade disputes when workers are organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of. Labor
Federal Employment” Bureau
American Federation of L Abor
Seattle
Wash
Wilson
Department of Labor
Great Trades Union ‘Movement
Fedeeal Employment Bureau
Immigration
Caminetti
Immigration Service
Treasury
Congress
Magazine Offer Listings With Free Patterns
The Record presents a catalog of popular magazines and clubs including Everyday Life, Woman's World, Farm and Home, Farm Life, and McCall's, many offering free patterns. Other titles include Gentlewoman, Household Guest, Rural Weekly, and Farmers Wife, with prices aligned to the standard rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm and Home Woman's World Household
Woman's World Club
Oman
Diagram of Field Hospital Care for Wounded
Paris war correspondent describes a British army field hospital system from regimental aid post to base hospital. The diagram shows regiments with a surgeon and sixteen stretcher bearers followed by stages of dressing, splints, hemorrhage control, field ambulances to advanced dressing stations, main dressing stations with operating tents, collecting hospitals and base hospitals.
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Paris
Best Paying Railroad Built of Scrap and Wood in Canada
A tiny northern Alberta line near Grand Island is cited by Techboical World as the best paying railroad. It spans a quarter mile with no locomotives, uses two battered freight cars, and relies on workers to push freight cars while furs travel on scows up the Athabaska river. The Hudson Bay Company charges $2.50 a ton, and shippers handle all tasks themselves.
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Techboical World Magazine
Grand Island Railroad
Alberta
Canada
Auoy
Athabaska
Urand
Hudson Bay Company
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Frank T. Pearce
Diller
Nebr
U.S. Employment Bureau
Labor Department
Movement
American Press Association
Secretary OF Labor
eCalls
Averyday Life
Wieman’s World Peoples Popular Menthir Gentlewoman
CLUB
Ne 8 Feerth and
Home Feem Life Househeld Magazine
Ne. 4
Ageericean Women
Toadiy Fants
E World
Smith
Club Ne
Green's
Prairie Farmer Househeld
Magazsine
Club No
Uarry Hoare Farm Life Gentlewoman
Magazine
Home Life
Gentlewoman
Kimball's Dairy Farmer Home Life
Club No. 22 Farm, Stock and Home Woman's World Home Life
Fencerwork Magazine
Eee Weekly Star
Perm Life
Woman's World
Kansas City
Weekly Star
Everyday
Southern Ruraliet
UB No
Farmer's“ Kiy Dispatch
St. Pat
Parm Life
St. Paul
McCall's
Life Household Gueet
Record Office
Nebraska
Peanine Line
Wmance Peottnpr
Mvamcer
Maiim
Srecrees
East Hospital
J. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Fairbury, Neb
DR. MH. Bauguess
Diller, Nebr
Perience
Mars
Ale Iees Co
All Newsdesiers
MN & Co
Broadway
New York
Washington, D
Claude Ellis
Diller, Nebraska
Odell
O.C. Diehl
Ss. B.waiers
Piller, Neb
Waggoner Bros
Tmngilaeh
L. P. Raymond
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